Mobile Millennium: a mobile phone as a system for monitoring transportation

The company Nokia has launched a pilot project for the residents of Mobile Millennium USA-owners of mobile devices with integrated GPS-receiver. The experts taking part in this initiative, will collect and analyze information about traffic on the roads, comes from mobile phones. In fact, it could be a model Nokia or other manufacturers. Thus, the aim is to transform Nokia mobile devices in traffic monitoring system, the benefits of the chosen method is that these machines available everywhere and always with the users. While tracking the road infrastructure in the U.S. represented a fairly weak, said Nokia (indeed, in many other countries in similar situation).



Mobile Millennium Project will work in a pilot version within 6 months, it may take up to 10,000 users. He held Nokia Research Center together with NAVTEQ, the Center for Innovation in transportation at the University of California at Berkeley (CCIT) and the Division of the California Transportation (Caltrans). In order to participate in the project, you need to register and download the free application on your mobile device. In the case of a successful testing period ends, Mobile Millennium, probably will expand the coverage area.